Watch TV On The Radio’s Dave Sitek get downright wistful about weed

Dave Sitek has completed extra issues whereas excessive than most of us will do sober. “I’ve been excessive just about most of my life,” he says firstly of this episode of Merry Jane’s “Deep Weed” video sequence, and to take a look at the breadth of his work—manufacturing work for Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Liars, Foals, Little Dragon, and Scarlett Johansson along with his personal work with TV On The Radio—is its personal testomony to the powers of the substance.

Sitek’s recollections on the stuff is downright wistful, main him to reminisce about his first excessive earlier than describing how shopping for his first ounce made him really feel like he’d received the lottery. “I assumed it will final endlessly,” he says, “till I spotted what sort of associates I had. I believe it made it every week.”

“I believe that just about everybody my age is in perpetual pursuit of the weed we smoked as youngsters,” he continues, unwittingly producing an ad-lib for anybody over 30—simply change “weed” and “smoked” for no matter it was that first spurred their creativeness and sense of discovery. For Sitek, although, the connection is evident and innate, and has result in some highly effective stuff. Possibly he might present this huge, weed-loving boy a factor or two about translating marijuana into creativity.